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New York, December 4, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of U.S. freelance journalist Luke Somers, who has been held hostage in Yemen for more than a year. Following a video released on Wednesday that showed the journalist pleading for his life, U.S. government officials issued press releases today publicly acknowledging that Somers was being held by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. CPJ did not previously report the case at the request of the family, who today released a statement about the kidnapping.

Police detained freelance reporter
Moctar Barry on November 15, 2012, in the central town of Sévaré, after he returned
from reporting on events in
Gao, an Islamist-occupied city in the northern half of Mali, local journalists
said.

Two journalists for Radio Netherlands Worldwide have gone
public with their story of Sri Lankan government harassment, which ultimately
drove them out of the country last week. The episode had been reported on a
few Tamil websites, but I had been unable to confirm the story independently.